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Yancey Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$47k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$145kYouth Development$67kFood & Nutrition$52kHealth$39kPhilanthropy$35kHuman Services$11kReligion$11kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$622k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Feeding the Valley Food Bank$7,500
Muscogee County Library Foundation$6,625
Trinity Episcopal Church$5,625
The Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley$5,000
Columbus State University$5,000
Boys and Girls Clubs Inc$5,000
Easter Seals of West Georgia Inc$5,000
Truth Spring Academy$3,000
Wholesale Wave Georgia$1,750
Animal Ark$1,250
Food Mill$750
MercyMed of Columbus$500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Open Door Community House: $1k → 18%Open Door Community House: $1k → 18%Open Door Community House: $250 → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$326k · 19 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
7

Total granted

$326k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+147%

Still filing today

42%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionEducationEnvironmentEmploymentHealthHousing & ShelterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BS
    BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $44k · revenue +27%
  • FT
    Feeding the Valley Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +836%
  • MO
    MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN
    7× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +231%

Funded once

  • HF
    HEART FOR AFRICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +68%
  • CH
    Columbus Housing Initiative Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +147%
  • TS
    TRUTH SPRING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +891%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Community Farmers Markets Inc

To develop a local food infrastructure for long term sustainability and meaningful community impact and grow a diverse local food culture by maintaining an authentic space for all people to share community, fair food, and healthy…

Food & Nutrition
2
Appling County Food Bank Inc

Our mission is to provide free food to needy families in appling county.

Food & Nutrition
3
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…

Food & Nutrition
4
Covenant Care Services Inc

Covenant Care Services, Inc. is a non-profit faith-based adoption agency serving birthmothers and adoptive families in the state of Georgia. The Organization counsels women experiencing unplanned pregancy and educates them about the option…

Human Services
5
Coastal Harvest

Feed the hungry and assist our partner agencies free of charge.

Human Services
6
Colquitt Food and Clothing Bank Inc

The purpose of this organization is to provide food to low income and needy families/individuals of Colquitt County, Georgia. Counseling in health and nutrition to these families/individual residents of Colquitt County is also provided.…

7
Southeast Gwinnett Cooperative Ministry Inc

To provide food and emergency financial assistance to families in need throughout Southeastern Gwinnett County, Georgia

Religion
8
The Community Table Inc

To provide nutritious meals to the hungry and food insecure in Jackson County, NC in a welcoming environment. We do this through our soup kitchen, food pantry and community garden programs.

Food & Nutrition
9
Stowe Mission of Central Ohio

Christ-focused ministry to inner city residents in central Ohio.

Community Improvement
10
Feeding Southwest Virginia

To provide food and other related products primarily to member agencies for distribution to those in need, and also for direct distribution.

Food & Nutrition
11
Christians Reaching Out to Society Inc

CROS serves the hungry by distributing food at local pantries, recovering and distributing fresh produce that would otherwise go to waste, serving lunch at local meal sites, delivering prepared meals to the homebound.

Religion
12
Virginia Community Food Connections

Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Truth Spring Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Margarets House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MUSCOGEE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $84,725 · OtherMUSCOGEE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCBoys and Girls Clubs Inc — $41,225 · OtherBoys and Girls Clubs IncGirls Inc — $25,425 · OtherGirls IncTRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $8,125 · Other+15 more — $48,600 · Other+15 moreFeeding the Valley Inc — $41,950 · Food & NutritionFeeding the Va…WHOLESOME WAVE GEORGIA INC — $6,375 · Food & NutritionWHOLESOME WAVE…BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC — $43,625 · EducationBROOKSTONE SC…+1 more — $1,500 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC — $35,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY …MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN — $25,100 · HealthEASTER SEALS WEST GEORGIA INC — $13,500 · EmploymentGEORGIA ORGANICS INC — $1,800 · EnvironmentTHE FOOD MILL — $1,750 · Environment
Other$208,100Food & Nutrition$48,325Education$45,125Philanthropy$35,000Health$25,100Employment$13,500Environment$3,550

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC — $43,625 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding the Valley Inc — $41,950 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC — $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN — $25,100 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetEASTER SEALS WEST GEORGIA INC — $13,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWHOLESOME WAVE GEORGIA INC — $6,375 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetValley Interfaith Promise Inc — $6,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetHEART FOR AFRICA INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE INC — $2,650 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetColumbus Housing Initiative Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUTH SPRING INC — $1,950 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGEORGIA ORGANICS INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOOD MILL — $1,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChattahoochee Valley Episcopal — $1,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetColumbus State University Foundation Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Margarets House — $650 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds Feeding the Valley Inc
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC
  • Who funds MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN
  • Who funds EASTER SEALS WEST GEORGIA INC
  • Who funds WHOLESOME WAVE GEORGIA INC
  • Who funds Valley Interfaith Promise Inc
  • Who funds HEART FOR AFRICA INC
  • Who funds OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE INC
  • Who funds Columbus Housing Initiative Inc
  • Who funds TRUTH SPRING INC
  • Who funds GEORGIA ORGANICS INC
  • Who funds THE FOOD MILL
  • Who funds Chattahoochee Valley Episcopal
  • Who funds Columbus State University Foundation Inc
  • Who funds St Margarets House

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley IncGA36.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Beloco Foundation Inc · John P and Dorothy S Illges Foundation Inc · The Jordan Foundation Inc · The Daniel P Amos Family Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Elizabeth Fry and Dupont Kirven Foundation Inc · Jackson-Burgin Foundation Inc · Gb & Ca Saunders Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Yancey Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Yancey Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Yancey Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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